On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:38:42AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi thanks for the feedback
> >
> > How long is a "long long time"? What does vmstat show during
> > the injection
> > process? Is it one qmail-inject with lots of Bcc:s? Or one
> > qmail-inject
> > per recipient?
>
> It takes approximately 6 hours for the script to complete, each
> message invokes a separate qmail-inject process as the mails are
> customised with the persons name / details etc. The concurrency only
> seems to hit about 30- 40 while the script is still pumping messages
> into qmail-inject.
Ok. So you're almost certainly disk (queue) constrained.
What does qmail-qstat show at, say, half way thru the inject? Is "not yet
preprocessed" getting large? If not, you might want to run multiple
inject scripts by splitting up the recipient list, but don't go crazy.
> > Are you using multiple spindes? Can I recommend that you do.
>
> Do you mean separate hard disks for the queue? .. The queue resides
> on a RAID5 hardware controlled array.
Across how many spindles, what RAID exactly?
Regards.
